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For Marx, the writing of history was one form critique could take. 23 It called into question assumptions about necessary links between past and present (these might simply be a projection of contemporary conceptions on to the past, an illusion of continuity), stressing discontinuity instead. David Hoy writes of Adorno, The effect of critical history is temporal: it focuses our attention on the present. Critical history, however, does this with neither the rationalist intent of making the present seem the culmination of all that has gone before, nor the neo-conservative intent of preserving the status quo.
14. See also Jacques Derrida, Right to Philosophy pp. ’, trans. C. ), The Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1 (New York: New Press, 1997): 315. ’, trans. L. : Blackwell, 2002). Cited in Hoy and McCarthy, Critical Theory, p. 48. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage Books, 1994): 219. Michel Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’, in Donald F. , Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Michel Foucault (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977): 146.
That history, along with geography, was dead. That history in the older sense was an historical concept.